Motivation & Personal Development
Description: This training course recognises the importance of motivation to personal development within an organisation by teaching participants the core components that underlie a positive approach to work life. Our goal in this course is to instil participants with a greater awareness of the motivational forces that drive the individual, so they can develop a more productive approach to their working lives and enhance their overall levels of motivation to become happier and more efficient employees.
Prerequisites:
None
Key areas addressed include:
- The role and function of our emotional attitudes in work
- The means of critically assessing how we interact and communicate with colleagues
- The way in which techniques, such as
- Conceptual Analysis
- Critical Thinking
- Emotional Analysis
can be used to better understand the driving forces behind many of our decisions and actions in the work place
96% Programme:
- This is the fifth in the Professional Training “96% Programme”, aimed at practically confronting the issues facing us in the workplace.
- If we use only 1% more of the 96% of our brainpower we aren’t utilising, we’ll be 25% more effective. This session is another step on that route.
Trainer Biography: Dr. Kevin M. Sludds:
Dr. Sludds has devised and delivered highly regarded courses in areas including; `emotional analysis and self development`, `the philosophy of mind` and `creative writing`. He has published and lectured both in Ireland and internationally. He has worked with a range of clients in both the public and private sectors and has contributed to the development of Government strategy in the area of mental health.
Course Outline:
Introduction:
- Outline of the day ahead and a Get-to-know-you session.
What is Motivation?:
- Defining the theme; Recognising potential problems & providing concrete examples; Feed-back from all of the participants
Why do we lack Motivation?:
- A discussion of the symptoms of a lack of motivation, e.g. negative thoughts about prospects/abilities/Self; Restricted choices and limited goals; Feeling discontent or being stuck in a rut etc.
- Getting to grips with the emotional attitudes that underline a lack of motivation, e.g. unhappiness.
- Describing the Hybrid Cognitive Theory of Emotion
Techniques to Building Motivation:
- Description and discussion of the technique of Conceptual Analysis and how it helps us to uncover unrecognised biases and presuppositions
- Challenges: moving out of our comfort zone
- Focusing: highlighting specific positive actions that can be acted on to develop greater motivation amongst a group
Motivational Analysis:
- Fear as a Motivating Force – are negative emotions a good long-term source of motivation?
- Self-belief and Positive Goals as Motivating Forces
- Utopian Experiment: Life Design Plan - identifying attainable from unattainable goals
Motivational Exercises:
- What gives you pleasure/makes you happy in work (e.g. doing a good job and being recognised for it)?
- What obstacles exist to higher levels of motivation in your work place?
- List those people who you believe have achieved and how they did it
- How does open and positive forms of communication lead to enhanced motivation in a group?
- Creating clear goals and gaining a positive attitude